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지긋지긋 jigeut-jigeut
The heavy, soul-weary resentment born from enduring someone's unchanging, repeat-offender bad habits or endless nagging.
What does 지긋지긋 mean?
지긋지긋 (jigeut-jigeut) means: The heavy, soul-weary resentment born from enduring someone's unchanging, repeat-offender bad habits or endless nagging.
Speakers reach for this when dealing with chronic, unchanging bad habits, persistent annoyances, or nagging from someone around them. It pairs with expressions of annoyance, disgust, and deep fatigue such as 귀찮다 and 싫다, as well as physical idioms of distress like 진저리를 치다 and 치가 떨리다. In casual exchanges, speakers use it to vent about repeated nuisances, such as unwanted phone calls that keep happening over and over.
can sound like a heavy emotional toll has reached its breaking point, suggesting the speaker has endured far more than they should have.
can sound like a heavy emotional toll has reached its breaking point, suggesting the speaker has endured far more than they should have.
Other sides of 지긋지긋
◆ Monotonous Grind at Work — Speakers use this to describe a situation that is overwhelmingly tedious, annoying, and distressing through endless repetition. It commonly pairs with words expressing annoyance, fatigue, and being worn down, such as 싫다, 귀찮다, and 피로하다. A dialogue exchange shows speakers using it in casual conversation to complain about repetitive nuisances like unwanted automated calls.
This can evoke a feeling of mental suffocation, as if trapped in an endless loop of identical, draining tasks with no escape in sight.
This can evoke a feeling of mental suffocation, as if trapped in an endless loop of identical, draining tasks with no escape in sight.
🎙️ 지긋지긋은 표기 그대로 읽지 않아요 — 실제로는 [지귿찌귿]로 소리나요 (경음화, 받침규칙). 발음 연습하기 →
How it's actually used
- 내가 사지 않겠다고 했는데도 장사꾼이 지긋지긋 따라오며 말을 걸었다.
Na-ga sa-ji an-get-da-go haet-neun-de-do jang-sa-kkun-i ji-geut-ji-geut tta-ra-o-m-yeo mal-eul geor-at-da.
Even though I said I wouldn't buy anything, the vendor persistently followed me around and talked to me, to my utter exhaustion.
💡 Shows the fatigue of dealing with someone who stubbornly and repeatedly will not leave you alone. - 지수는 친구가 자기 욕을 했다는 사실을 떠올릴 때마다 지긋지긋 치가 떨렸다.
Ji-su-neun chin-gu-ga ja-gi yok-eul haet-da-neun sa-sil-eul tteo-ollil ttae-ma-da ji-geut-ji-geut chi-ga tteol-lyeot-da.
Every time Jisu remembered the fact that her friend had badmouthed her, she was sick to her stomach with lingering resentment.
💡 Shows deep-seated resentment tied to a recurring emotional hurt caused by another person. - 나도 그런 전화 많이 오는데 정말 지긋지긋 귀찮더라.
Na-do geureon jeon-hwa mani o-neun-de jeong-mal ji-geut-ji-geut gwi-chan-deora.
I get those calls a lot too, and it is honestly sickeningly bothersome.
💡 Shows a casual exchange between speakers sharing a mutual frustration over chronic annoyances.
Related words in Emotions & Feelings
마음이 무겁다 Ma-eum-i mu-geop-da마음을 비우다 Maeumeul biuda낯이 뜨겁다 Nachi tteugeopda눈살을 찌푸리다 Nun-sal-eul jji-pu-ri-da눈에 밟히다 Nune balpida